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This research group studies the challenges of sustainable
development, vulnerability and adaptation to societal and environmental
changes. In our research projects we study the sensitivity and
vulnerability of peoples, livelihoods and institutions to societal and
environmental changes. Alongside threats to biodiversity, pressures on
cultural diversity by local, national and international economic
developments need our increased attention. The adaptive capacity of
Arctic inhabitants to these changes will be an important focus within
our research group.
The Arctic and Sustainable Development
People in the Arctic, their institutions and livelihoods face rapid
and cumulative changes in their environment and in the societies
surrounding them. The speed of these changes may make it difficult for
them to adapt. Growing interest to the use of the region’s natural
resources and impacts of industrialization and global change
increasingly and directly affect human lives and the state of the
environment.
Sustainable development requires long-term perspective to the
relations between the environment, society and economy. Sustainable
development is a widely accepted principle but also contested. Different
stakeholders have different views about what it means and how it should
be promoted. We also observe a rich diversity of ways to respond to the
challenges of a changing social and natural environment among Arctic
inhabitants. Sustainable development is also a question of international
cooperation and governance in the region. Indigenous peoples have been
increasingly recognized as partners of states in international
environmental cooperation.
Group
Projects
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